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  • Transforming Discipleship, By Greg Ogden
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    Transforming Discipleship

    by Greg Ogden

    Many church leaders, yearning for church growth, look to the latest evangelistic strategies or seeker-targeted worship services. But lack of growth might not be due to lack of concern for new people—it may be because we are not effectively discipling the people we already have. Greg Ogden address the need for discipleship in the local church and recovers Jesus' method of accomplishing life change ...

  • Preaching the New Testament, Edited by Ian Paul and David Wenham
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    Preaching the New Testament

    Edited by Ian Paul and David Wenham

    The New Testament writers proclaimed their message passionately and persuasively. This volume explores how we can preach faithfully from those texts. The chapters cover the main texts and genres of the New Testament, and offer particular insights into the infancy narratives, parables, miracles, the Sermon on the Mount, ethics, future hope and judgment, archaeology and history, hermeneutics and the ...

  • ChurchNext: Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry, By Eddie Gibbs
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    ChurchNext

    Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry

    by Eddie Gibbs

    • A 2001 Christianity Today Book of the Year

    What will the church be next? CHANGE IS NOW. Competition from nontraditional and Eastern religions join with the pressures of both modernism and postmodernism to squeeze Christianity. While new church models have sprung up to meet these challenges, they each have strengths and limitations. Eddie Gibbs, a well-known ...

  • The Girl in the Orange Dress: Searching for a Father Who Does Not Fail, By Margot Starbuck
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    The Girl in the Orange Dress

    Searching for a Father Who Does Not Fail

    by Margot Starbuck

    "Chosen." "Special." Those are the words Margot Starbuck used to describe herself as a child adopted into a loving family. And when her adoptive parents divorced, her dad moved east, and her mom and dad each got remarried, she told herself that she was extra loved, since she had more than two parents and people in different times zones who cared about her. But the word she really believed about ...

  • Vision: Living Under the Promises of God, By Scott Nelson
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    Vision

    Living Under the Promises of God

    Forge Guides for Missional Conversation

    by Scott Nelson
    Foreword by Alan Hirsch

    The mission of God has a church. So the church needs to be in sync with the mission of God. This is the guiding philosophy of the Forge Missions Training Network, which has helped church leaders and laypeople alike all over the world to reach their neighbors, their neighborhoods and their communities with the gospel. In these guides you and your friends will be equipped to be missionaries where ...

  • The Recovery-Minded Church: Loving and Ministering to People With Addiction, By Jonathan Benz
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    The Recovery-Minded Church

    Loving and Ministering to People With Addiction

    by Jonathan Benz
    With Kristina Robb-Dover

    You want to have vibrant and healthy relationships with those who struggle with addiction in your church and community. But you find yourself wondering how to meet their needs in a wise, helpful and God-honoring way. The Recovery-Minded Church addresses the pressing questions you are facing in ministering to those with addictions. Here you will discover a clinically informed, biblical ...

  • Faithful Work: In the Daily Grind with God and for Others, By Ross Chapman and Ryan Tafilowski
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    Faithful Work

    In the Daily Grind with God and for Others

    by Ross Chapman and Ryan Tafilowski

    One-third of our waking lives is spent at work. Work is where we make culture and come into contact with our world. Work is central to God's mission to redeem souls, systems, and structures. And God works through our work to bring hope to the brokenness and fallenness of our surrounding culture.

    The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news for the world, and that includes the transformation ...